Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] while give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corporate funding , which rose to around £30m last year , has its part to play , irritating though it is when executives parade as great patrons while giving away their shareholders ' money . |
| 2 | Sir : Your otherwise sound leading article ( 'Private gifts for public arts ' , 11 October ) shot itself hypocritically in the foot in its last paragraph by expressing irritation with corporate executives who ‘ parade as great patrons while giving away their shareholders ’ money' . |
| 3 | He took a surly , sullen and arrogant attitude while giving his evidence . |
| 4 | The merger of the two operations will transform Hawker Siddeley into the UK 's biggest supplier while giving it 10 per cent of the European market - putting it in third place behind the Swedish-Swiss combine Asea Brown Boveri and Siemens of West Germany . |
| 5 | NOTTINGHAM condemned Rosslyn Park to almost certain relegation while giving themselves a glimmer of hope of survival in League One with their first victory of the season , based on three tries by flanker Martin Pepper and 18 points from outside-half Guy Gregory . |
| 6 | Voltaire , an altogether more sympathetic figure , who incidentally used to serve himself the best Burgundy while giving his guests vin ordinaire , observed in one of his philosophical tales that la lune de miel is followed the next month by la lune de l'absinthe . ] ) |